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The Best Pop-Punk Album From Every Year – 1980 to 1989

Below we’ve highlighted the most important pop-punk album from every year through the '80s. Since the sub-genre was still in ...

Every Rush Studio Album Released in the '70s, Ranked

From Fly By Night to A Farewell to Kings to Hemispheres, this is the definitive ranking of Rush's studio albums released in ...
Louder

"I could feel the power behind me and it was like being in front of a locomotive." The Swedish metal icons whose biggest hit was so confusing even Metallica's Kirk Hammett ...

It's safe to day that even the most patient music teacher struggle to explain the polyrhythms that provide the backbone of this Meshuggah classic ...
The Columbian

Vancouver recording studio Scenic Burrows, formerly Ripcord Records, still plays important part in Northwest music history

Country music bard Johnny Cash once said the only difference between himself and Oregon singer-songwriter Buzz Martin was their source materials, which were equally hardscrabble but thousands of miles ...
Louder

“It’s brutal. Energy and power and speed… without that album, there would be no Metallica or Slayer or Sepultura”: Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera names the greatest riff ...

“My first album was Queen, Live Killers. Me and [my brother] Iggor went to the show in Sao Paulo, and the next day I went to the store to get anything by Queen and the guy from the store recommended ...